I was just re-reading Le Guin's _The New Atlantis_, a complex story with narrative interlace and multiple levels of meaning, which I am not sure I understand...
A discussion list for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea, and many more.I always have found Ursula prescient....
David This was a very interesting posting! When I started reading it I started thinking - do I know this story? - then I began to recognise the dystopia side....
Forwarded from the Feminist SFFU List: Hello Everyone, The journal Paradoxa: World Literary Genres is are currently preparing for a special volume on Ursula Le...
Hi! My book club in London has (foolishly) agreed to let me choose the list of books from which we'll choose our next read. UKL being probably my all-time...
I think that if you can get people to read The Dispossessed, that's great -- it is long (387 pp), but it seems to me it is a great book, as sci fi, as...
"The Dispossessed" is a good book for non-sf readers who are interested in political theory, because it shows how sf settings can be used as thought...
I would also support The Dispossessed, or The Left Hand of Darkness. I don't read science fiction either (not since seventh grade), but UKL is different....
Hello! I would choose The Dispossessed. Because it is a thought-provoking book, that deals with many relevant issues of society. Besides, I have heard a few...
Definitely go for "Dispossessed" if you have to choose one for Le Guin. A lesser-known but excellent (and very short) novella set in the Ekumen universe is...
The Dispossessed was to me the most impresive of the UKL Books and there is such a wide range of topics covered in it to discuss, along with the very moving...
I have to say I agree with you about not enjoying Word for World is Forest Jokerine, and I didn't read it in translation. I was also dismayed to read in UKL's...
I am at this moment re-reading The Dispossessed and agree it's the best read for non-science fiction readers. ... TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's...
I am mostly a reader of crime/mystery books, but have a science fiction leaning at times. I was reading a blog and saw a reference to a Le Guin story/book...
The only one I can think of that partially fits your description of the novella "Vaster than Empires and More Slow" about a group of people with various...
Dear Trixie, I think it is a story entitled something like New Atlantis -- in Le Guin's collection A Compass Rose. Originally in a book edited by Silverman...
... This definitely sounds like "Vaster than Empires and More Slow". At the beginning of that story, Le Guin writes: "It was only during the earliest decades...
Yes, as others have written, this is definitely "Vaster than Empires and More Slow", published in "The Wind's Twelve Quarters" and other short story...
Many thanks for helping me find "Vaster than Empires and More Slow", published in "The Wind's Twelve Quarters." I have found it in the online catalog of my...
I own a paperback copy (old) of "The word For World is Forest." So I know it's the real thing! And it's very much a LeGuin story in its bending of the...
I found 'The Winds Twelve Quarters' at a local library and read 'Vaster than Empires and More Slow.' Wow, it's mind expanding reading! Guess I'll have to read...
Dear All, I am organising a panel (or panels, depending on the level of interest) on the theme of anarchism and utopianism at the 8th international conference...
I don't know if many of you read Ansible, but thought you might be interested in this extract from the latest edition A236 under a headline of Outraged...
I am interested in identifying a quote of Ursula Le Guin. I believe it is something like... “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the...
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end" It's in the second to last paragraph of chapter 15 of The Left...
haha, you beat me to the post Heather. The Left Hand of Darkness is correct for that is one of my very favorite quotes from that novel - along with "Ignorance...
